Spent the afternoon at TuS Makkabi Berlin e.V., a fifth-division football club and the only with Jewish identity in Berlin. Makkabi Berlin defeated TSG Nuestrelitz 3-2. Story to eventually come on football and Jewry in modern-day Germany.

On Friday, we traveled to Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin, the state parliament building. We spoke to and interviewed Ronald Gläser, an AfD state parliamentarian, as well as the CDU’s Roman Simon, an MP for Germany’s leading party.

We met tonight with Deborah Feldman, the writer of “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots” and “Judenfetisch.”

Walking tour to start our first full day in Berlin:

We made it to Berlin — and are on our way to dinner with the Irish Times’ Berlin correspondent Derek Scally.

We ran into Annenberg professor Afua Hirsch before boarding our flight to Munich, Germany! Next up: Berlin ✈️🇩🇪